James A Hunter Books in Order

A deadly Russian necromancer is loose, and Yancy is the wrong man in the worst possible mood. To stop him, he has to team up with an FBI agent who has been hunting him for years, without his magic.

Set in 1969 Vietnam, this novella shows Yancy before he became the fixer readers know. A strange blues signal in the jungle awakens something ancient, and something powerful inside him.

Mage and paranormal fixer Yancy Lazarus comes to Los Angeles looking for music and a little peace. Instead, he lands in a supernatural murder case that could start a citywide war.

Yancy's road trip through Montana turns into a monster hunt when Bigfoot asks for help. A rogue Sasquatch and a greater Wendigo put a whole town on the edge of slaughter.

With an extinction-level asteroid about to erase Earth, EMT Jack Mitchel uploads his mind into Viridian Gate Online. Survival in the game's fantasy world is possible, but it comes with brutal rules, ruthless players, and no way back.

This Yancy Lazarus novella looks back to an earlier clash with the Morrigan, long before the endgame of the main series. It adds more history, more supernatural trouble, and more of Yancy's rough-edged voice.

Levi Adams is a golem shaped from mud, death, and the horrors of a concentration camp, and judging killers is built into him. A quiet life is hard to keep when old evil and supernatural violence keep finding him.

Yancy is already juggling apocalyptic baggage when Death turns up in one of his old haunts. To stop a new mage from claiming the Fourth Seal, he has to face nightmares from his own past.

Yancy wakes up in Hell with missing memories, fresh enemies, and a murder charge he cannot explain. To get home, he must survive Pandæmonium and pull off a coup big enough to shake the Abyss.

Jack escaped Earth's end by dying into Viridian Gate Online, but peace inside the game does not last. To stop a tyrant from locking the new world into feudal rule, he gambles on rebellion and a city theft.

War with the Empire is finally here, and Jack's rebel coalition is badly outmatched. As Robert Osmark marches, an older and darker threat begins to wake beneath the struggle for Eldgard.

With the asteroid closing in, tech billionaire Robert Osmark prepares to make Viridian Gate Online humanity's last home and his personal empire. Rival elites and hired killers are determined to stop him first.

Jack's alliance has survived the opening blows, but Robert Osmark is still coming. A dangerous new quest may be his best chance to win, if it does not turn him into the kind of ruler he hates.

Roark wants the Troll Dungeon Lord gone, but civil war inside the Citadel turns survival into a brutal numbers game. Worse, people in the real world are starting to notice that something about him is wrong.

Roark von Graf flees a doomed rebellion through a portal and lands inside a game as a troll monster. To get home and save his world, he has to master dungeon rules he was never meant to understand.

This volume steps away from the main road for extra adventures, offbeat detours, and the kind of lore that deepens Hunter's fantasy worlds. It is a good pick if you already want more than the core quest line.

When a flayed body turns up in Bigfoot territory, Winona and Chris are forced into an uneasy alliance with supernatural peacekeepers. The case leads to an old revenge plot and an enemy strong enough to threaten millions.

A new enemy brings real death into Viridian Gate Online and starts corrupting the Realm of Order itself. To stop the Lich Priest, Jack may have to trust former enemies before Sophia and the Crimson Alliance fall.

Winona Treesinger, Bigfoot princess and reluctant guardian, leaves the forest to stop grisly killings near Missoula. Disguised as human and teamed with detective Chris Fuller, she steps into a much messier world.

Marine pilot Jacob Merely survives a crash near Cyprus and walks straight into a war between old gods and the dead. Armed with Ares' power, he has to rebuild the Amazons' last stronghold before Hades breaks through.

Jacob has power, a city, and Amazons at his back, but Hades is still closing in. To save the world, he must descend into a prehistoric underworld and claim a weapon strong enough to kill gods.

Vlad wants to build a crafter's guild powerful enough to change Eldgard, but first he needs a hidden power source buried in a sunken ruin. Old enemies and forbidden inventions turn the hunt into a race.

Sam King stumbles into Eternium and lands on a very strange magical path, one tied to books, power, and the wolfmen. It is a side-door into the Completionist world, with a more outsider feel from the start.

Alan survives the first round only to end up dead, on the run, and tangled with spies, pirates, and his dangerous ex. In mist-covered Wyrdtide, the game keeps getting stranger and the stakes keep rising.

With Darklings and Vogthar tearing through Eldgard, Jack hunts the scattered relics of a weapon that can kill a god. The quest sends the Crimson Alliance into old mysteries and a race against total collapse.

With Earth nearly out of time, Abby and Otto flee into the rebel underground to learn what the stolen Faction Seal really does. Every answer pulls them deeper into Osmark's plans for Viridian Gate Online.

Abby Hollander uncovers hacked code that suggests Robert Osmark plans to rule more than a game. To stop him, she dives into Viridian Gate Online and teams up with an AI before time runs out.

Alan tries to juggle spying, thievery, and an unexpected romance with Lady Camilla of the Inquisition. To get ahead, he has to survive syndicates, monsters, and a widening struggle on both sides of the game.

Alan Campbell gets one weekend inside Viridian Gate Online to prove the game works before Earth dies. Instead, he finds corruption, danger, and AIs that may already have plans for his soul.

Abby is pulled into a dangerous quest that leads beyond familiar Traveler paths and straight toward gods and elemental power. If she can survive the trials, she may become the Firebrand Eldgard needs.

Now a Dungeon Lord, Roark faces Lowen, a stolen super-dungeon, and the growing war against the Tyrant King. He needs new allies, a stronger class, and every dirty trick he can find to keep the Troll Nation alive.

Russian weapons engineer Vlad Nardoir sees the end of Earth as a chance to escape a ruined life. In Viridian Gate Online, he has to use brains, grit, and crafting skill to survive the new world and the old grudges following him.

Jacob finally has the weapon he needs to challenge Hades, but an undead army and a dangerous new ally stand between him and the underworld. The finale turns mythic war into a personal test of power and restraint.

Grim Jack leads the armies of Eldgard into a desperate push against Thanatos and the Vogthar hordes. To use the Doom-Forged weapon, he has to cross into Morsheim and face truths that could change him forever.

Vlad has built a guild and won impossible fights, but his hardest race is still ahead of him. With the Vault of Souls about to vanish again, he must beat the clock, a hidden evil, and his own darkness.

Back from Hell, Yancy Lazarus finds the supernatural world in pieces and his friends under siege. To stop the Morrigan's new ritual, he has to bring everything he has left to one last reckoning.

Roark's Troll Nation is stronger, but Lowen and the Vault of the Radiant Shield are still coming. To survive the next assault, he must unlock the World Stone's transmutation magic and gamble on a new kind of evolution.

Lowen has found a way to strike Roark's allies outside the game, turning the war into a crisis for both Hearthworld and Earth. Roark has to drag game magic into the real world for a final Dungeon Lord showdown.

Sam King is settling into life as a Bibliomancer, but advancement means bigger costs, harder choices, and a pack depending on him. To build a future in Eternium, he has to blaze his own trail.

Dr. Lisette Chen enters Viridian Gate Online after discovering her coworkers have already abandoned the old world. In Eldgard, her healing gifts put her at the center of a plague, a conspiracy, and a fight for humanity's new refuge.

Liset risks losing both her faith and her healing class just when Viridian Gate Online needs her most. Temple politics, Darklings, and a brewing civil war force her to fight for the right to keep helping people.

Army veteran Logan Murray is eaten by a mimic and wakes up at a school that trains dungeon guardians, not heroes. Reborn as a weak fungaloid, he has to survive classes, monsters, and finals without becoming cannon fodder.

Logan survives his first year at Shadowcroft only to find the second one deadlier and stranger. With students dying and old secrets resurfacing, he has to level up, solve the mystery, and keep his crew alive.

Roark finally gets his shot at the Tyrant King, but the endgame strips away every safety net. Trapped in a no-respawn showdown with a curse on him, he has to turn reality itself into a weapon.

Jack's war reaches its breaking point when someone close to him is taken by Thanatos. To save her and finish the fight, he must survive a twisted game within the game, far behind enemy lines.

Liset is sent toward a brutal arena and a dungeon rumored to open into Morsheim itself. With only one respawn left and her lover on the rival team, every choice carries permanent cost.

Boyd Knight dies a Marine and wakes up in a monster-filled world as one of Raguel's chosen hunters. Every kill makes him stronger, if a deadly shapeshifter does not end his second life first.

Boyd heads to Wildespell expecting a harder hunt and gets a city on the brink instead. To stop murders, fear, and a looming civil war, he has to work through politics almost as deadly as the monsters.

Boyd is forced into the Wyld Hunt, where refusing means death and joining may be worse. To live through it, he has to navigate fae politics, cheating nobles, and targets wrapped in dark bargains.

The Wyld Hunt is not finished, and Boyd's enemies are only getting crueler. To survive the final rounds and the Queen of Oblivion's schemes, he may need dark bargains of his own.

After the Merge turns the West Coast into dungeon country, Clay Jaeger heads into the Infested Zone with Alex and Joe looking for a shot at power. Killing a Dungeon Lord might be the only way to start over.

Clay's family has survived the wasteland, but thriving there means taking bigger risks. A deposed Dungeon Lord offers a once-in-a-lifetime quest that could lift them up or grind them into dust.

Shadowcroft's interschool tournament turns Logan's junior year into a showcase of loot, sponsorships, and lethal politics. A masked dungeoneer with ties to Earth is hunting contestants, and the Terrible Twelfth is right in the middle of it.

Clay and his family are framed and suddenly facing all of Civilization as the enemy. To survive, they may have to turn a dungeon itself into their strongest weapon and fight for the freedom of the whole IZ.

Clay finally sees a path to the spellslinger power he wants, thanks to a very strange quest and a very dangerous Dungeon Lord. The catch is simple: this enemy can steal souls, not just lives.

Now that the Jaegers have Incant powers, they could settle down, if the wasteland would let them. Instead, they take on a crew enslaving homesteaders and discover some fights are still too big for easy wins.

Griff's daughter is trapped inside the Supermax, a dungeon turned prison where nobody comes back out. The rescue mission turns into a jailbreak and then into something worse, because the real threat wants souls.

Dan needs more power before the Flayed Monarch arrives, which means fighting through Eternal Suburbia and its homicidal homeowners. The sequel grows the shop, the arsenal, and the list of things trying to kill him.

Dan noclips into the Backrooms and finds himself trapped in an endless dungeon of nightmare floors and game-like magic. To survive, he has to build a refuge, cut bad deals, and stay ahead of the Flayed Monarch.

Dan goes on the offensive by targeting one of the Flayed Monarch's biggest allies, the Franchisor of the 99th Floor. The job runs through cursed holiday zones, corporate monstrosities, and secrets Dan never asked to learn.

This standalone story leans more atmospheric and mysterious than Hunter's bigger series. A lighthouse, the end of time, and a slowly unfolding puzzle give it a quieter, stranger pull.